porker
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)kə(r)
Noun
porker (plural porkers)
- A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.
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- (slang, pejorative) An obese person.
- (Britain, slang) A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang pork pie).
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